| 1. | I have not that alacrity of spiri. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Lager without alacrity she served. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | a kind of alacrity in sinking if the bottom were as deep a. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | "Give me the Herr's luggage," said the driver, and with exceeding alacrity my bags were handed out and put in the caleche. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | Emma was rather in dismay when only half a minute afterwards he began to speak of other things, and in a voice of the greatest alacrity and enjoyment. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 6. | Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 7. | The girl jumped up, with great alacrity poured it quickly out, but with her back towards him and held the vessel to his lips, while he drank off the contents. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | With cheerful alacrity he dodged the stones flung after him with friendly, erratic aim by the girl upon whom, yesterday afternoon, he had come to make a social call. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | With grace of alacrity towards the mirror gilt Cantrell and Cochrane's she turned herself. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |